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<description>A journal about home design, gardening, art, and all things Maine.</description>
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<title>WHEN WAS THE HOLMES COTTAGE BUILT?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Some years ago, we were privileged to restore all the original windows in the historic Dr Holmes Cottage in Calais. At the time we did extensive research resulting in several blogs. We also learned there were questions about when the cottage was built.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:25:08 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>THE BRICK HOUSE</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Back in 2022 we did a story about the restoration of a few precious sashes from an 1822 home in Hollis Maine. This Spring we’ve been working on another much larger batch from that same historic home.  It seemed like a good moment for a reprise.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2025 18:10:06 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>DIVING INTO HISTORY - LETTERS</title>
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<description><![CDATA[During the course of our restoration research, we somewhat serendipitously came across two letters related to the Richardson family. Thanks to Pam Beverage of the genealogy and family history website, Heirlooms Reunited, our client was able to purchase these items and in one case return it to its former home.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2022 13:47:25 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>DIVING INTO HISTORY (PART 5)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In January of 1830, the Richardson family saw the birth of a daughter, Francis E. (Fanny), followed 2 years later, by another, Eleanor Miller. Sadly, and inexplicably just a year after that, Eleanor as well as her 36-year-old mother, Mary, both passed away. Erastus would remain a widower until 1845, when he married 45-year-old, Mary (Polly) Shumway, “a maid,” from his old home town.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2022 10:45:57 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>DIVING INTO HISTORY (PART 4)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Two years later, as a member of the Committee of the First Congregational Society (the Unitarian Church), Erastus would find himself embroiled in a controversy that had been festering in Eastport for all of ten years.  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2022 10:13:15 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>DIVING INTO HISTORY (PART 3)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In June of 1821 Dr. Erastus Richardson was appointed Surgeon of the 3rd regiment of the infantry, 23rd Brigade, 3rd division of the Militia of the State of Maine. Two months later, in August, Mary bore their first child. Named for his father’s, father and mother’s family they would call their first boy, Amasa Johnson.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2022 12:09:20 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>DIVING INTO HISTORY (PART 2)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On the first of October, 1867, George Nelson Richardson, a Unitarian minister living in Worchester Mass, sold a federal era cape on the corner of Washington and High Streets in Eastport to Lydia C. Buxton, wife of Edward G. Buxton. George was the son of Erastus and Mary Richardson, builders and first residents of the home that came to be known as the “Buxton House.”]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2022 12:37:58 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>DIVING INTO HISTORY (PART 1)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Last fall we were called in to tackle a project in Eastport that involved the total restoration of the front door surround in a very old Federal era cape prominently located on Washington Street. The homes current owner wished the work done as a gift to the residents of the island city.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2022 17:50:10 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Bathrooms With History</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It’s been a while since our last blog; more than one pandemic ago. Who knew that we would be considered essential workers? We safely navigated shutdowns and mask mandates while working our way through six consecutive bathroom projects.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2021 14:13:54 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Goodbye Old House</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Recently, while on the hunt for salvaged, wide plank, floor boards, we got a tip that a house on Hawkes Avenue in Eastport, that had languished for decades, was going to be torn down. We were familiar with the property because we considered it while house hunting in anticipation of our move  Downeast. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2020 07:49:13 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Fall Newsletter</title>
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<description><![CDATA[2019 began with a kitchen and pantry renovation of a century old cottage in Red Beach, following the completion of a Perry seaside cottage bath. We then moved on to Phase II of the portico entrance restoration at the ‘Holmestead’ in Calais. That done, we are about to begin an Eastport bathroom restoration in an 1899 Queen Anne style home.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2019 17:52:25 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>The Cottage (part 2)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When the Red Beach cottage was built and by whom is still an open question. It has been added to and altered a number of times during its long life. Census records suggest occupation on that site as early as 1910. Structural tells found during the demo phase; square nails, hand planed beaded moldings, lath and plaster marks and extra wide old growth pine sheathing suggest an earlier date - 1860 to 1880.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2019 20:38:28 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>The Cottage (part 1)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[We celebrated the start of summer with the completion of our latest project; a kitchen/pantry renovation in a 100+ year old cottage, in the sleepy Calais suburb of Red Beach. Situated on the St. Croix River around a sheltered cove and first-rate mill stream, one would never suspect driving through this quiet residential district today, that it was once a vibrant, prosperous, self-sufficient community.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2019 20:30:55 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Restoration Tales</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This year our 1890's restored farmhouse was really starting to show her age. After all, it's been nearly 15 years since her last paint job. So, following a relaxing spring sojourn in our old stomping ground, Sag Harbor, we decided it was time to 'pencil her in.' And what better time to 'pretty her up' than to coincide with the celebration of our adopted hometown's 200th birthday. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2018 11:44:48 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>In Like a Lion</title>
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<description><![CDATA[We just returned back from a ‘spring’ trip to the Hamptons; staying in a circa, 1810 Federal in our old hometown of Sag Harbor. This home was the site of our very first kitchen and baths renovations, some 20 years ago. Our former clients have become longtime friends.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2018 13:34:48 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Wrap-up</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This year we were fortunate to work with clients whose goals leaned strongly towards preservation and restoration. These are special opportunities for us. Successful hunts for antique hardware, lighting and appliances; plus following the home's ancient 'tells' made these projects especially authentic. A bit of magic always happens when a room or project comes to feel as though it has always been that way.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2017 09:13:29 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Summer Newsletter</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Our latest kitchen and pantry project in the historic, circa 1850, Benjamin R. Jones home in Dennysville and detailed in the blog, 'Square Nails and Tells', now has its finishing touches. Our clients took a trip down to historic Little Compton, RI and the Antique Stove Hospital to pick up their freshly rehabilitated kitchen stove. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2017 14:31:11 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Leaving Well Enough Alone</title>
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<description><![CDATA[With the kitchen restoration in our project home, a circa 1850, Dennysville cape, nearing completion, our focus turned to a bathroom on the first floor of the main house. The room, that likely once served as a small bedroom (sometimes called the "birthing room") was turned into a bathroom, in the late 1920s by members of the Leighton family. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2017 08:27:20 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>From our kitchen to yours</title>
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<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce that our restored 1890s farmhouse is featured in the June issue of the Maine based publication, Down East magazine. Just after the holidays we were contacted by the magazine's senior editor, Virginia Wright who pitched us her idea. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2017 17:20:20 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Square Nails and Tells (part 2)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Early in the home's history, probably as an afterthought, a door was cut between the pantry and the summer kitchen likely to provide a more direct route between the two. In the 1950s renovation, when the pantry was turned into a dining room, part of the wall was cut out to enlarge that doorway.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2017 15:13:34 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Square Nails and Tells (part 1)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's good that our current kitchen restoration is almost finished, as we have nearly depleted our stash of assorted antique square nails. For the sake of authenticity, they've been 'driven' into a new home; the historic c.1850, Benjamin R. Jones house, in Dennysville, on the town road leading to the Narrows.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2017 15:10:19 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Season&apos;s Greetings</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Looking over the last year we realized that we'd spent most of 2016 working largely on various versions of Maine's ubiquitous Cape. With construction dates ranging from 1835 to 1850 all were planted near water, the preferred avenue of transportation until the early 20th century.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2016 18:33:47 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Hello Out There</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Several projects in our home-workshop gave us the chance to enjoy our lakeside farm here in coastal Maine - and what a lovely summer it has been. We also got a nice complement when a Toronto based production company casting for a new design and renovation show in development for HGTV expressed an interest. We of course already have quite a full plate between time in our studios and business activities.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2016 20:11:41 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>The Old Hancock House</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For the past year we've been on the hunt for an antique door for a restoration project. Our search through architectural salvage yards and antique shops down the coast of Maine came up empty, so we placed a want ad in a local newspaper. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2016 15:00:45 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Water&apos;s Edge</title>
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<description><![CDATA[During this unusually mild winter we stayed busy with projects ranging from upgrades to a lobsterman's summer cottage on the Passamaquoddy Bay, a guest room renovation in a circa 1840s cape on Water Street in Eastport, to Phase 2 of window restoration in an antique home on the Dennys River.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2016 08:21:11 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Preservation Tales</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Since our spring newsletter we've finished projects in an 1899 Queen Anne cottage and two 19th century Cape Cods. In May we were surprised to be contacted by a TV production company based in Knoxville Tennessee that works with HGTV and the Food Network. They were interested in developing a reality show following our various restoration and renovation projects.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2015 08:35:36 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The Ketcham Inn and the Curious Case of the Culper Connection (Part 4)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Anna Smith Strong’s cousin, William Smith, was a member of the Provincial Congress and the Lord of St. George’s Manor, an old family estate on Smith’s Point, on the South Shore of Long Island. At the time of the British occupation, Smith and his family were driven from their home and forced to flee to upstate New York. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2015 09:28:54 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>The Ketcham Inn and the Curious Case of the Culper Connection (Part 3)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In January of 1778, Benjamin Havens' brother-in-law, Selah Strong, was imprisoned by the British. That summer, Benjamin Tallmadge commenced his secret operations. In August, George Washington wrote a letter to Caleb Brewster from White Plains, New York. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2015 19:09:29 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>The Ketcham Inn and the Curious Case of the Culper Connection (Part 2)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Over the next several months, members of the Committee of Safety, including Benjamin Havens and Abraham Woodhull, would meet in both Corum and Setauket. Their activities would be short lived. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2015 20:39:38 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>The Ketcham Inn and the Curious Case of the Culper Connection (Part 1)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In 2010, we told the story of the historicTerrill-Havens-Terry-Ketcham Inn, located in the hamlet of Moriches, in the town of Brookhaven, on the South Shore of Long Island. Now, after 25 years of painstaking restoration the ancient edifice is poised to be reborn. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2015 15:48:51 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>THE NARROWS (PART 5)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In March of 1864, John Sheahan was promoted to 1st Lieutenant. At the end of July he was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Crater, during the Siege of Petersburg, Virginia.]]></description>
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<title>The Narrows (Part 4)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Benjamin R. Jones passed away in December of 1858, preceded by his wife, Mehitabel, just a year before. Three months after her father’s death, Amelia would remarry, a 36 year old farmer, Gilbert D. Foster. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2015 21:11:34 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>The Narrows (Part 3)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The untimely death of Captain Bela Reynolds in the spring of 1853 must have been devastating for his second wife Amelia. Six months pregnant with their sixth child and left alone to raise a fledgling family;]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2015 20:03:25 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>The Narrows (Part 2)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[We know from deeds that Nathan Preston built a home on his ‘Narrows’ property, probably the standard fare in those day and that place, a simple log cabin, 16 feet by 20. When he sold to Ezekiel Prince in 1810, for 280 dollars, the deed read, “…the same lot of land that I live and dwell apon.” ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2015 19:08:37 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>The Narrows (Part 1)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[One of our winter projects, the restoration of nine over six windows in a circa 1850s cape, piqued our curiosity. This venerable old structure is located in the town of Dennysville, on a peninsula that pushes into the Dennys River, on its journey to the Cobscook Bay. This ‘pushing’ forms a topographical feature, a bottleneck in the river, known simply as, “the Narrows.”  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2015 17:22:06 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Our Love of Old Houses</title>
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<description><![CDATA[We were pleased to be included in the March/April issue of New England’s own, Yankee magazine.  The magazine is celebrating its 80th year. Our Perry based business was chosen by the Editors for the section, “Our Love of Old Houses – Preserving the voices of New England’s past for a new generation.” ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2015 08:17:51 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>The Waste Land</title>
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<description><![CDATA[APRIL is the cruellest month]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2014 10:50:43 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Swinging Heart</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For over a decade I have been on a one woman mission to re-establish our late friend, 'New York School' artist, Raymond Hendler (1923-1998) in the art world. The estate is now represented by Berry Campbell gallery in New York City. The gallery is featuring mid century work in a one man show, Raymond Hendler: Swinging Heart from March 20 - April 26, 2014.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:13:14 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>THE BOYS IN BLUE (Part 4)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On February 15, 1899, a small ceremony was planned to honor the 266 sailors lost in the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor a year before.The only army unit to take part was the First Maine Heavy Artillery.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 19:31:51 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>THE BOYS IN BLUE (Part 3)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Rob’s battalion remained in Savannah until January 17, 1899, when it boarded the transport Obdam, bound for Havana, Cuba. Arriving on January 20, the Maine Volunteer Heavy Artillery was encamped at Camp Columbia, located on a high hill, about nine miles from Havana.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Rob Golding's company, Battery B of the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery battalion, was organized on July 16th, 1898 by the consolidation of two companies of the 2nd Infantry Regiment, Maine National Guard; Company I of Eastport and Company K of Calais. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 19:23:12 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>THE BOYS IN BLUE (Part 1)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The image of a sweet 1890s farmhouse appeared on a computer screen in the John Jermain library in Sag Harbor, New York. I was searching for a home we could call our own. It’s lovely hipped roof and central front door reminded me of a simplified version of a grand British Georgian. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 19:19:34 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Unmuddling A Kitchen</title>
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<description><![CDATA[One of our Eastport projects will be featured in the April issue of Old House Journal magazine.The "Special Kitchens Issue" will be on newsstands February 25.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2014 20:28:01 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Epic Ice Storm</title>
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<description><![CDATA[We celebrated Christmas and rang in New Year with back to back winter storms. The worst in 15 years, they left us powerless for several days and internet-less for almost a month. It was surprising to see how a gentle freezing rain could produce both beauty and devastation in a single sweeping swath. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jan 2014 11:29:08 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Ye Ole Rim Lock</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Often when we drive up the hill on Calais Avenue, I think of early 1900s era picture postcards I've come across in antique shops. Depicted were this scenic pair of streets, divided by a wide green park-like boulevard, lined with an arched canopy of majestic elms.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:32:23 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Silver &amp; Gold</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Only 50 more days until Christmas! Our Silver & Gold Sale begins today.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2013 08:46:11 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Water Street (Part 3)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As there was no reference in this deed to a prior owner, we had to take a different approach. We knew from an 1888 history, Eastport and Passamaquoddy, compiled by William Henry Kilby, that the property had once been part of a much larger track of land, 100 acres, owned by John Shackford - sea captain, ship owner and pioneer settler.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2013 08:32:32 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Water Street (Part 2)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Our first clue to the home's earlier residents came from a map of Eastport Village published in 1881 that included the footprint of every building along with the owner's name. Printed next to the cape on the corner of Water and Shackford Streets was M.D. Bibber.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2013 08:29:04 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Water Street (Part 1)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[We were recently called in to do a bathroom renovation in an historic, Federal style, Eastport cape on Water Street. Its proud new stewards were relocating to the area; part of a fresh influx of creative entrepreneurs that are breathing new life into the city.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 08:15:17 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>The Case of the Dubious Earthenware Tub</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I recently received a lovely compliment when one of our clients, a Calais, Maine native son and local town historian, exclaimed, "you're the Sherlock Holmes of restoration!" While it’s true I once lived on Baker Street, not in London but the “City by the Bay” - I’m not sure that that illustrious title quite fits. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 18:05:39 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Incident at Ipswich (part 2)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[William Laud acted promptly. The records of the Privy Council show that a warrant for tying up the two Ipswich vessels was issued within the week. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:07:10 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Incident at Ipswich (part 1)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the course of research into our property’s history, we came across some intriguing material related to a direct ancestor of our farm’s 1824 founder, Edward Bugbee. With further research we cobbled together one family's true story.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 17:20:45 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>A Maine Italianate</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A careful restoration will be invaluably aided if you let the building be your guide. Paying attention to those sometimes subtle tells - allows the structure to voice its opinion - lets an old building speak its mind. Sometimes that conversation can take you beyond the nut and bolts to real events and history. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:44:16 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Little Gussie</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It seems that the New Year invariably brings with it some early spring cleaning. While organizing photos, letters and papers we’ve gathered about the history of our property, I came across a real life Cinderella story. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:09:08 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Happy New Year</title>
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<description><![CDATA[We are kicking off 2013 with some new additions to our The Tradition of the New collection - the North Fork wine rack and an assortment of cutting boards we call collectively, Little River.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 11:29:50 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The Springs</title>
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<description><![CDATA["What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Juliet's sentiment was entirely understandable and continues to be relevant. What did it matter whether you were a Montague or a Capulet - if you were in love?]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:09:44 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Visions of Summer</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I woke up to the reality that winter is upon us - a thick coating of glittering frost.  My mind turned to our trip to the Hamptons this summer during the month-long heatwave.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 08:50:12 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Holiday Season Sale</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Shop small and local for: Artist Made, Hand Made & Maine Made gifts 15% off from November 24th to December 24th.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:33:01 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The Best Stools</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Our L'Etete stool and Boyden bench were featured finds in Design Marchand's blog post "The Best Stools".]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:11:24 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Best of Maine</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Two side tables, Mill Cove and Roque Bluffs, from our furniture collection are featured in Down East magazine's 58th annual Best of Maine issue - on newsstands in July.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:15:13 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Dr. Holmes Cottage Museum (part 2)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As the story goes, Captain James Holmes, fresh from the battlefields of the Revolutionary War, walked 175 miles with everything he owned in a knapsack on his back, from his birth town of Plymouth, Mass, to "Bog Brook Plantation," later known as Hebron, a promising new settlement in western Maine.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:09:45 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Dr. Holmes Cottage Museum (part 1)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Last fall the St. Croix Historical Society contacted us about restoring antique windows in the Dr. Job Holmes Cottage Museum in Calais. With their glazing and paint failing, they were urgently calling for a total overhaul. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 09:30:22 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Fan Favorites Sale</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For the month of June we're featuring a 10% off sale of a few fan favorites!  The Golding & Mini Gourmet Cabinets, as well as The Springs lamp.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:12:39 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Those Ancient Chinese Poets</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I thought I'd wrap up the story of our renovation on Shackford with a few poems written by our client, Tom Sexton. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:05:05 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>A Swiss Villa</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the course of our Eastport kitchen renovation on Shackford Street, many misplaced relics from the home's first family spilled from the walls; a 1904 calendar, a photo of a dapper young man in a suit and a vaudeville ticket to name a few.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 09:08:38 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Spring Sale</title>
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<description><![CDATA[We are kicking off the change of season with a Spring Sale!  All of our furniture, accessories, gift boxes and more are 10% off.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:53:31 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Queen Anne Simplified (part 2)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The director of Campobello International Park kindly emailed photos of the Cottage's butler's pantry and kitchen. Elements like brass cupboard latches, bead board doors and soapstone countertops felt just right for our Queen Anne's Victorian kitchen.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:20:41 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Queen Anne Simplified (part 1)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Designing a kitchen starts the minute we see the space; wheels are in motion - ideas begin to percolate. Even as the renovation continues to take shape we commit where we have to but keep our options open till that last stroke of paint.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:08:49 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Remnants from the Attic (part 2)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[We can never resist an invitation to tour an antique basement or attic. Luckily for our project, the original installers of our Queen Anne's tin ceilings a century ago, had taken the leftover scraps and secured them for safekeeping.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:34:42 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Remnants from the Attic (part 1)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the most stunning surviving features of our Queen Anne's old kitchen was its wonderfully ornate tin ceiling.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:50:34 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Trimming Out</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The dining room and kitchen in our Queen Anne house project in Eastport had been stripped of its architectural elements and covered up with birch veneer paneling - virtually head to toe. Fortunately the rest of the house was left intact, giving us a model to work from. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:17:56 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Holiday Sale</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Holiday Sale! 25% off til' the 25th on orders for our The Tradition of the New line.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:59:12 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Boxes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce the addition of a new line of gift boxes to our The Tradition of the New collection. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:42:01 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>The Summer Me</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On the heels of finishing the ‘in-home’ phase of our current kitchen renovation and with Labor Day approaching - we headed down the coast for one last summer adventure. Old friends from my days at Syracuse University had invited us for a visit. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:55:12 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Demo</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Our clients were not quite sure where the original kitchen in their Queen Anne cottage had been. Modern paneling was obscuring the evidence and rumor had it that it had once been located in the fully finished bead board basement.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:00:49 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Cinqueterre</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The first time I ever heard the name of one of my favorite Down East destinations, we were still living in Sag Harbor, New York.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:52:28 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Hot off the press</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On the heels of the Down East magazine article, ‘Every Mainer’s Kitchen” comes a feature story about our bath renovations in Old House Journal magazine’s Special Fall Issue: Creating beautiful vintage baths.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:50:59 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>&quot;Pretty it up&quot;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In a town filled with ancient Cape Cods, Federals and Second Empire mansards, this sweet, well kept,1899 Queen Anne cottage really stands out.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 13:08:08 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>In Bloom</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Each season on the farm has its own magic.  Here's a little bit of spring.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:50:54 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>And Finally, Cabinets</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Building new cabinets is one part creative thinking and one part problem solving. There are many practical questions to work through.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 12:01:27 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Some Light on the Matter</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Peeling back the layers of our significantly altered kitchen, unearthed just one original feature that had actually survived intact - the 4 inch wide, clear pine, strip floor.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 11:33:38 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Wall by Wall</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Replacing modern bow windows in our 1930s addition was critical in terms of transporting the room back in time.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 12:04:18 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Blog Mentions</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This month, fineartistmade was mentioned by design bloggers: Ill Seen, Ill Said, KB Culture and Frolic.  The posts feature everything from bath renovations, our home's restoration to our furniture.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:11:19 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Everything but the Kitchen Sink</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Since our “cook-space” renovation was in a state of evolution - we made do for a while with the existing stainless steel drop-in sink.  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 14:11:17 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Our Pantry</title>
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<description><![CDATA[After the kitchen walls were back in place - our next order of business was to finish the pantry. It would be the first fully completed room in the house. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:54:52 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Spring News</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A fineartistmade kitchen is included in the April issue of Down East magazine.  <br/>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 09:25:20 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>&apos;Over Home&apos;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday, our current bath renovation was unexpectedly interrupted - giving us a day off that coincidentally coincided with my birthday. We took this opportunity to hop across the border and go as locals like to say, 'over home.']]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:34:17 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Florence</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Before arriving in Maine, my vision of a 1930s country kitchen included a beige and green porcelain vintage gas range (like one I'd seen in an antique shop), with white ceramic toggles and an eye level oven on the side. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:23:17 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The Five Year Plan</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Depending on conditions, contemplating a restoration can be a tad overwhelming. The journey of a thousand miles may begin with a single step, but the question still remains - where do we start?]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:26:21 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>A Kitchen Addition</title>
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<description><![CDATA[By talking with Golding family and neighbors, looking at old photographs and examining the physical remains - we've been able to piece together a snapshot of our home's second kitchen.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:27:36 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The Old Kitchen</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A granddaughter's recollection provided a first real glimpse of our home's original kitchen. Like many at the turn of the century it consisted of free-standing furniture, rather than built-in cabinetry. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:31:37 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Cleaning the Attic</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Rob Golding's sister, Amy Alice Tucker, was herself a creative story teller and an avid writer of short stories and poems.  In a diary entry dated, September 1, 1933, Amy writes that she returned to her childhood home to help her sister-in-law, Jane, clean the attic. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 16:21:41 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The Ketcham Inn (Part 2)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On the first day of December, 1698, just a month and a half after purchasing a large tract of land known as Warracta Neck, the blacksmith, Samuel Terrill, suffered a calamity so severe that it would leave himself and his family homeless.  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:45:19 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The Ketcham Inn (Part I)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[With the Thanksgiving holiday approaching, I got a hankering for old friends and old haunts. We decided to embark on a visit to the other Eastport; the one on Long Island's East End, just west of that enclave of wealth & celebrity - the Hamptons.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:41:02 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Black Friday</title>
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<description><![CDATA[To kick off this holiday season - all orders made for our furniture, accessories and gift items starting on Black Friday and ending on New Year's Day will be 10% off. Shop handmade this season! ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:18:05 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>First Settlers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Though we never met Robert Golding, he helped give us a glimpse of what life was like on our farm. A local legend; Rob was a hunter, guide, woodsman, farmer and gifted storyteller. His friend, Archie Stewart documented through movies and audio reels hunting and fishing expeditions and Rob telling his stories. They are archived at Northeast Historic Film and the Maine Folklife Center.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:40:12 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>The Old Apple Orchard</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When looking to buy a new home in Maine, one feature our broker neglected to mention about this property was its grove of heirloom apple trees. We were pleased to discover them struggling amidst the white pine and ash that had sprouted up around them.  This orchard had been pretty much been taking care of itself for who knows how many years - all the while faithfully producing apples.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:05:05 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>The News</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This old house of ours has got us busy this fall!  We've been taking advantage of all the last of these beautiful sunny fall days to refurbish most of our 26 windows and storms - getting  the house ready for winter.  So, there has been scant time for blog posts.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 11:41:36 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>My Perennial Garden (Part 2)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[My garden was inspired in part by many I had read about or visited. One part English garden from my time spent in London (studying photography) and traveling through Europe; one part country garden from my Long Island and Maine experiences; one part California garden from years spent combing the state while assisting a friend who was a nature and wildlife photographer. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:06:17 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>My Perennial Garden (Part I)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Off the back of the house, some fifty feet down a gentle incline towards Boyden Lake - nestled among survivors of an old heirloom apple orchard, on the edge of a field - within the remains of a rectangular stone foundation - resides my perennial garden. That it occupies this spot was a well laid plan; the significance of the location, on the other hand - was wholly unexpected.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:34:30 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>History in a Can</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Eastport kitchen renovation has come to a close, but the story isn’t over just yet.  One more aspect of the home’s restoration begged for attention - its history. The question that most intrigued us now? Who had lived in this venerable old cape?]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:32:39 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>The Devil&apos;s in the Details</title>
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<description><![CDATA[We never build the same kitchen twice, but the challenge is always the same -  to create a space that is both elegant and functional.  Serving not only the user's culinary and domestic needs, but reflecting sensitive and thoughtful values that elevate the spirit.  Heady goals for a humble kitchen?  Why not?  We allowed this home to guide us; from trim to cabinets to finishing touches.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:59:10 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Whats New</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Our latest furniture and gifts news: learn the history of our Tradition of the New line, see our new gift items that are now 'live', learn about our 'item of the month' - the Golding Gourmet.  Visit our new online fineartistmade etsy store - or locally at The Red Sleigh, in Perry.  Shop handmade and local!]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:58:15 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Nuts and Bolts</title>
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<description><![CDATA[There is a warmth and authenticity in custom handmade cabinets you just can’t get from the store-bought variety. With painting done, it was time to start building the cabinets for the Eastport kitchen. We could do the job in our shop, but establishing a workspace onsite has its advantages; one being a more fluid design process, another, the economy of convenience.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:10:25 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>The Honeysuckle Vine</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Prominent in many old photos are Mary Golding's plantings, one had not been so lucky. A large climbing vine, on the south side of the house; between the dining room and kitchen windows.  It's there as early as 1910 - as late as the 1950's - gone by the 1970's. Such a distinguishing feature - we thought of putting it back. Old photos however, gave us few clues as to what kind of vine it was.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:28:24 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Kendall Farm Cottages</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Just a short walk across our north field and through a line of trees, you find yourself at one of Downeast Maine's best kept secrets - Kendall Farm. Two wonderful cottages, Watercress and Wildflower, built in the 1920's are maintained and rented by their current steward, Georgiana Kendall - who carries on a family tradition. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:44:54 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Trim</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Beneath two subsequent kitchen renovations, the original hand-planed baseboard and chair rail had survived. It was difficult to remove them from the positions they had occupied for so many years, but this was not a museum restoration - this was somebody's summer home. The goal was to create a comfortable modern kitchen that preserved the 'spirit' of the old room.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:41:09 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>The Roof</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sometimes necessity is the mother of unexpected and happy results. When we purchased our Perry, Maine home it came with a new roof.  One less thing to worry about for say - thirty years?  Not long after moving in though, shingles started to fly.  The wind off Boyden Lake can be fierce. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:49:09 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Old and New</title>
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<description><![CDATA[There is precious history woven into the fabric of an old home. Though we prefer to keep as much original material as possible, total preservation is not always practical or economical. This is often a sad reality while working on antique buildings. Renovation, even at its best, requires a little bit of letting go. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:22:05 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>The Old Fireplace</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Prior to the "deconstruction" phase of our Eastport kitchen renovation we hammered out a plan for the new room with our client. Creating a brand new kitchen in an antique home requires special consideration. It has to function efficiently, respond to the needs and conveniences of contemporary living - yet somehow connect with kitchens past. In this case a past that spanned nearly 200 years.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 20:54:52 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>A New Workshop (Part 2)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[We have always been restoration purists at heart, so the first major decision in our workshop renovation, was a tough one - to reposition the original location of the exterior door from the center to the side (where a window had once been), to make the space more functional. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 07:36:52 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>A New Workshop (Part I)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[An expanding business made it time to attack a project long overdue - a properly fitted workshop. The space that workplace now occupies, began its life seventy-five years ago as a woodshed in the back end of the 1935 ‘ell’ (‘Maine-speak’ for addition) to our circa 1893 home.  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 21:12:57 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Getting Started</title>
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<description><![CDATA[My inaugural blog, coincides with the start of our new project, a kitchen renovation in an early nineteenth century cape in Eastport.  Our goal is to bring the room back, in spirit and detailing to its earliest period.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 13:26:27 -0400</pubDate>
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